Quotes About Efficiency

Kettlebells are compact, inexpensive, virtually indestructible, and can be used anywhere. The unique nature of kettlebell lifts provides a powerful training effect with a relatively light weight, and you can replace an entire gym with a couple of kettlebells. Dan John, Master SFG[1] and a highly accomplished power athlete, famously quipped, "With this kettlebell in my bedroom I can prepare myself for the Nationals.

The bike is efficient—and fat people can ride it forever.

We've been told that Henry Ford never fired employees but shifted them around until he found the niche that was right for them. A

All these hours and chatting and things like that don't make the science better.

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it's done.

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

But shale drilling needed another technology to be economic. This was horizontal drilling.

Advanced manufacturing, including 3D printing, could have a major impact on energy use by reducing transportation costs. New technologies for buildings could make them much more energy efficient.

The global fleet of civilian airliners, while more efficient, was expected to double by 2040. That may now be pushed out a few years by the slower growth in passenger travel. Nevertheless, demand will return; over 80 percent of the world's people have never been in an airplane.